Public Health (Canada)

B.C. premier says ‘zero per cent chance’ for no-prescription opioid suggestion

Expanding access to low-cost opioids would lead to new challenges for B.C. prescribed safer supply program: economic analysis

Ontario’s family doctor deserts are so vast, patients won’t leave physicians even after they move hours away

B.C. to implement committee’s suggestions on overdose responses at schools

Ontario says nine listeriosis infections linked to recall of Silk milk

‘Torrential’ rain warning as Hurricane Beryl remnants hit southern Ontario, Quebec

Desperate for hernia surgery, we lined up at 1 a.m. to nab a walk-in assessment

Heat warnings expand in B.C. as heat expected to intensify

U.S. and U.K. place restrictions on sodium nitrite after linked to wave of deaths, Canada does not follow

Warnings expand as heat wave settles over B.C., with weekend temperatures set to rise

Environment Canada issues multiple warnings as B.C. braces for weekend heat

Calgary daycare, run by same company as earlier outbreak, shut down after student tests positive for E. coli

Boil-water advisory lifted in Halifax and surrounding areas

Canada needs national strategy to monitor online gambling harms: report

Unique pilot project pairing ER nurses with police is already making a difference on Windsor’s streets

First Nation concerned Victoria Gold, Yukon government playing down impact of Eagle mine rockslide

Lyme disease cases on rise in Quebec, with more towns in endemic zone

Canada’s 2023 wildfires burned huge chunks of forest, spewing far more heat-trapping gas than planes

Ontario, Manitoba and Quebec record more cases than usual of invasive meningococcal disease

Some sensible advice on health spending, still ignored 50 years later